Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) includes the Apache HBase database, which provides random, persistent access to data in Hadoop. This "NoSQL" database is ideal for scenarios that require real-time analysis and tabular data for end-user applications. Apache HBase can host big data tables because it scales linearly to handle very large (petabyte scale), column-oriented data sets. The data store is predicated on a key-value model that supports low latency reads, writes, and updates in a distributed environment .

As a natively nonrelational database, Apache HBase can combine data sources that use a wide variety of structures and schemas. It is natively integrated with the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS ) for resilient data storage and is designed for hosting very large tables with sparse data.

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